Police Brutality / Individual record
Kisha Michael
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Kisha Michael in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-02-21 in Inglewood, CA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-370
- Incident date
- February 21, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Inglewood, CA
- Agency
- Inglewood Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 31
What happened
Kisha Michael, 31, was fatally shot by Inglewood, California, officers early on February 21, 2016, while sitting inside a parked Chevrolet Malibu alongside Marquintan Sandlin. Police said they approached after a report that someone in the vehicle had a gun. Five officers discharged their weapons into the car, killing both occupants; neither had fired at police. The Los Angeles County district attorney reviewed the case years later and reported gaps in the original investigation, including the absence of body-camera and dashcam recordings. A March 31, 2022, decision said there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers' deadly force was unlawful. Michael's death must be treated separately from assumptions about Sandlin's actions and from the criminal prosecution threshold.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1292
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- female
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1113
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset